Secret Garden
2026– · BBC iPlayer · 58 min · 1 season
S01E05 · The Western Highlands
Sun, 5 Apr, 3:00 pm
David Attenborough reveals how a remote garden on Scotland's west coast has become an oasis for barn owls and pine martens as they battle the elements to feed, breed and survive.
About
To experience epic animal adventures, there's no need to travel the globe. Some of the greatest natural dramas are happening much closer to home.
Britain's 30 million gardens have a combined area greater than all of our national nature reserves combined. And it turns out that our flowerbeds, vegetable patches, lawns and ponds are home to thousands of animal and plant species - many rarely seen, most barely understood.
Secret Garden tells the surprising stories of the wild characters that live right on our doorsteps, revealing what they get up to when our backs are turned.
Episodes
- E01
Oxfordshire
Sun, 5 Apr· 58 minDavid Attenborough reveals the lives of the kingfishers, otters and other animals in a river garden. Life here seems idyllic, but all are at the mercy of seasonal floods.
- E02
Bristol
Sun, 5 Apr· 58 minDavid Attenborough reveals the hidden lives of foxes, hedgehogs, blue tits and frogs, each making a life for themselves in a small urban garden in Bristol.
- E03
The Lake District
Sun, 5 Apr· 57 minDavid Attenborough reveals the hidden struggles of swallows, field mice, newts and moles as they race to breed in a beautiful country garden in Cumbria.
- E04
The Wye Valley
Sun, 5 Apr· 57 minDavid Attenborough reveals how tawny owls, badgers, dormice and bumblebees have made a home in a beautiful woodland garden hidden at the bottom of a steep-sided Welsh valley.
- E05
The Western Highlands
Sun, 5 Apr· 58 minDavid Attenborough reveals how a remote garden on Scotland's west coast has become an oasis for barn owls and pine martens as they battle the elements to feed, breed and survive.
Cast
David Attenborough
Presenter